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Fact Check: This video of dead bodies of COVID-19 patients is not from New York

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A video is doing the rounds on social media where black bags containing dead bodies, can be seen. The text attached to the video claims that the video was taken in New York.

Just received this video from New York… Pile of dead bodies stock being tagged as numbers.
America has not yet declared complete Lockdown. Now New York is rapidly turning to a graveyard.
India’s prime minister, Narendra Modi, decreed a 21-day lockdown for 1.3 billion people, the largest cordon sanitaire in world history.
Try to understand the seriousness of the current situation. Covid19 is not a joke.. Stay Home, Stay Safe. Be a responsible citizen!” the caption read.

 

FACT CHECK 

NewsMobile fact-checked the above video and found the claim to be false.

We extracted the keyframes of the video using the InVid tool and found the same video on YouTube, uploaded on April 2, 2020. However, the video description claimed that the video is from Ecuador.

 

A Twitter user also pointed out that the video is not from New York.

Also, in the video, the name tag on one of the body bag reads – ‘ Zambrano Loor GIlbert’.

We ran a search on the name and found a tweet with a condolence letter by the Association of Real Estate Brokers of Guayas (ACBIR).

We also found several other videos with similar body bags piled up in a room and they were said to be from a Guayaquil, Ecuador.

The above information proves that the viral video is not from New York.

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